Top 100 Gifts With Quotes
#1. The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly after having lived as fully as one can, doing the very best one can with the gifts one has been given.
Barbara Quick
#2. MG was nearly mythical, other than my entries - no interaction with users on
the off chance one was a Fernoza on the troll. And today proved I couldn't take a stranger bearing gifts at face-value.
A.E.H. Veenman
#3. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.
J. Sterling
#4. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.
Anderson Cooper
#5. The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives ...
Kimberly Hahn
#6. Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.
Neil Gaiman
#7. My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.
Kristen Stewart
#9. It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#10. If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
Joy Harjo
#12. The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives
Huey Freeman The Boondocks
#13. I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.
Robert Wagner
#14. An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption
with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#15. Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.
Carol Leifer
#16. I don't like giving or receiving gifts because I don't like that initial reaction. Although I do enjoy the love and the family aspect of Christmas, and I love eating with my family and friends and reconnecting with them.
The Miz
#17. Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
Laozi
#18. The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.
Abdu'l- Baha
#19. Take pride in your achievments, not in the gifts you were fortunate to be born with.
David Seller
#20. When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
Dallas Willard
#21. Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)
Neena Verma
#22. No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
Knut Hamsun
#23. Don't depend on someone else's plumages to define your beauty. You have brighter and beautiful feathers. Just fly with them!
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.
Laurie R. King
#25. I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
Euripides
#26. Can you lose your inborn talents? Can the gifts you come into this world with be taken away without your even noticing? Maybe it's my fault for wanting always to stem the fires within me? Perhaps there are some fires that should be allowed to rage on?
Jinat Rehana Begum
#27. is not a competitive event; it is a cooperative venture. The Spirit distributes his gifts so that believers are compelled to rely on each other in unity, not to contend with each other in selfishness.
Standard Publishing
#28. Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
Russell Simmons
#29. Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments.
Kirsten Beyer
#30. No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.
Billy Graham
#31. I look forward to the day when women with leadership and insight, gifts and talents, callings and prophetic leanings are called out and celebrated as Deborah, instead of silenced as Jezebel.
Sarah Bessey
#32. the real stars - the ones who made it all the way up to that peak where they've been granted by adoring fans an almost godlike status - have always been special in some way, blessed with dazzling gifts and/or beauty, both talented and given to hard work.
Nancy Jo Sales
#33. Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
William Shakespeare
#34. Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
George Eliot
#35. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
Les Brown
#36. The odds may be stacked against you. But I believe when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and rest of us.
Charles F. Glassman
#37. Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing
Duane Allman
#38. Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big.
T. Harv Eker
#39. More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
Edward Sapir
#40. Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
Roy Ayers
#41. One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have is the result of our efforts rather than the gifts, good turns and opportunities provided us by others.
Michael Josephson
#42. A person of high, rare mental gifts who is forced into a job which is merely useful is like a valuable vase decorated with the most beautiful painting and then used as a kitchen pot.
Irvin D. Yalom
#43. God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.
John Paul Jackson
#44. I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#45. Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
Robert Schumann
#46. One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
Caroline Kennedy
#47. In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
B.F. Skinner
#48. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.
Frank Rich
#49. It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Jonas Salk
#50. I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
Billy Corgan
#51. Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself.
Laura Hillenbrand
#52. Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."
That's how some days feel - when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.
Vera Nazarian
#53. The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.
Jay Saunders Redding
#54. The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville - the counsels being thrown into the bargain.
Alexandre Dumas
#55. What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts ...
Robert E.Lee
#56. We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God ... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
Ann Voskamp
#57. The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.
Marianne Williamson
#59. This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
Johann Arndt
#60. That is the problem with gifts, Madar-jan. They are always given away.
Nadia Hashimi
#61. With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.
Sakya Pandita
#62. The Soul's knowledge is lovingly gifted, just as you are presented with gifts - from those you love.
Eleesha
#63. I really feel like sometimes I'll write these songs, and I'll just think, 'You know that couldn't have come from me alone.' I believe that God inspires us. I believe that He gives us gifts and talents, and it's up to us to develop them and choose what we do with them.
Lindsey Stirling
#64. Should you ever be so lucky as to encounter an author in your life, you should shower her or him with gifts and praise. Sir
Jonathan Auxier
#65. Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.
Kerry Washington
#66. Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.
Ray Bradbury
#67. God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, He at last made a gift of Himself.
Henry Scougal
#68. If you don't want me to buy you silly gifts with great emotional import, don't disappear in the middle of the mall.
Amy Lane
#69. I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.
Ryan Reynolds
#70. Each day is like a treasure box of gifts from God, just waiting to be opened. Open your gifts with excitement. You will find forgiveness attached to ribbons of joy. You will find love wrapped in sparkling gems.
Joan Clayton
#71. Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.
Anita Baker
#72. Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.
Henry B. Eyring
#73. Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.
Matisyahu
#74. With affluence come the debased gifts born of abuse, misuse, and overuse.
John Zande
#75. Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Kathleen Norris
#77. One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.
Joyce Meyer
#78. No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
Joseph Campbell
#79. Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.
Phyllis McGinley
#80. The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.
Rose Tremain
#81. We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!
Lynn Johnston
#82. If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.
Wilford Woodruff
#83. Emotions are very precious gifts; share with them, who know the the worth of these gifts...
Ankit Rawat
#84. What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#85. We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us
Samantha Abeel
#86. We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.
Jeff Goins
#87. Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.
Jennifer Allwood
#88. Only because the message concerning Jesus Christ must still go forth and find believers, and because our task is not yet perfected, does God in His patience continue to sustain us with His good gifts.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#89. At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
Queen Elizabeth II
#90. If you can open your mouth to say; I love you! To someone without taking such person(s) as your priority, even with your gifts and money, something more important than your freebie is missing out!
Michael Bassey Johnson
#91. Gifts that are most appreciated are often associated with the country, or even better, the specific location you are from. These kinds of gifts may include coffee table picture books of your city or national parks, or mugs, t-shirts, paperweights, and so on that display your company or school logo.
Matthew B. Christensen
#92. In comic books, people with gifts became superheroes; in real life they became outcasts.
Eoin Colfer
#93. What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it.
Paul Rankin
#94. I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Peabo Bryson
#95. My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
Kacey Musgraves
#96. How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.
Pope Clement I
#97. Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. These gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others.
Jack W. Hayford
#98. Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.
Brother Yun
#99. God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.
J. Oswald Sanders
#100. I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?
Gabrielle Bernstein
